Mahalo
All I can say is WOW. I love this place. Anything you need or ever wanted is right here. So I’ll update the past couple of days.
Arrived on Thursday 3:30 pm…sick with a head/chest cold…Ate dinner and crashed.
Thursday morning 6 am…woke up and head was clear but chest full of crap. OK though cause I can breath now and I’m not feeling as though I could die anymore. Pack my bag and head north from Kaapa town. End up near Kilauea camping on Anini beach. Snorkel, go to lunch, buy a car for very very cheap. Go to sleep about 9.
Friday…wake up 6 am pack up gear and head farther north. Go to the market and grab fruit and phone numbers for barter work trade. Head back to camp meet up with some locals living on the beach and learn a lot about the island. Start finding pupa shells. (these shells you sell for 100 bucks per film canister which you can find in about and hour or so) Start carving coral that has washed up and making necklaces and bracelets. Hang out and swim. Snorkel a bit. Ate and went to bed.
Saturday: hung out on the beach with out new friends that have been showing us around. That’s about it.
Sunday: Got a tour of the island from Marty from Oregon. (a fellow beach rat—That’s what the beach squatters are called.) He’s gonna teach me to spear fish and he’s been teaching me about where to get free food and flowers and shells that are worth tons of money. Also met a few others that are really nice and watch out for us (not like you really need to be watched out for here…everyone is pretty damn friendly). Got the Info on where to and not to put your stuff. The DL on the island Centipedes that are the size of a loaf of bread….stay away from them! Spiders that are about the size of a rat and fast…very very fast. Neither of the latter are easy to kill either. I’ve seen the marks from the centipede bight. looks like a snake bite.
There is a lot about this island that I won’t put in this blog because you just have to come here to find out about it. It’s nothing secret, it’s just more interesting to experience it than hear about it. The island will provide everything you need. People barter like crazy here. It’s amazing. You will never go hungry and the community will take care of you if you are ever in need of anything. You’re car breaks down, someones there to help you and you never even asked. It’s amazing.
I’m gonna go fishing now and try to score some lobster maybe later. Oh yeah, watch out for the Samoan crab….he’s a big, angry, monster in size crab cake waiting to happen.
Aloha
